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Conditioning or cognition? Understanding interspecific communication as a way of improving animal training (a case study with elephants in Nepal)

Sign Systems Studies, 2009
When animals are trained to function in a human society (for example, pet dogs, police dogs, or sports horses), different trainers and training cultures vary widely in their ability to understand how the animal perceives the communication efforts of the ...
Helena Telkänranta
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Aerobic training, but not creatine supplementation, alters the gluteus medius muscle

, 2005
The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of oral supplementation of creatine on the muscular responses to aerobic training. Twelve purebred Arabian horses were submitted to aerobic training for 90 d, with and without creatine ...
Ferraz, G. C., Queiroz-Neto, A., D'Angelis, FHF, Boleli, I. C., Lacerda-Neto, J. C.   +4 more
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Exploring Refinement Strategies for Single Housing of Male C57BL/6JRj Mice: Effect of Cage Divider on Stress-Related Behavior and Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal-Axis Activity

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2021
Introduction: Single housing of laboratory mice is a common practice to meet experimental needs, or to avoid intermale aggression. However, single housing is considered to negatively affect animal welfare and may compromise the scientific validity of ...
An Buckinx, Andries Van Schuerbeek, Jo Bossuyt, Wissal Allaoui, Yana Van Den Herrewegen, Ilse Smolders, Dimitri De Bundel   +6 more
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Variation in salivary cortisol responses in yearling Thoroughbred racehorses during their first year of training

PLoS ONE, 2023
Thoroughbred horses are bred for competitive racing and undergo intense training regimes. The maintenance of physical soundness and desirable behavioural characteristics are critical to the longevity of a racing career.
Amy R. Holtby, Beatrice A. McGivney, John A. Browne, Lisa M. Katz, Keith J. Murphy, Emmeline W. Hill   +5 more
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Repercussões cardíacas após infarto do miocárdio em ratas submetidas previamente a exercício físico Cardiac implications after myocardial infarction in rats previously undergoing physical exercise

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, 2012
FUNDAMENTO: Poucos estudos analisaram os efeitos cardíacos do exercício físico prévio à oclusão coronariana. OBJETIVO: Avaliar, em ratas submetidas a exercício físico, as repercussões do infarto do miocárdio.
Eduardo Carvalho de Arruda Veiga, Leslie Andrews Portes, Danilo Sales Bocalini, Ednei Luiz Antonio, Alexandra Alberta dos Santos, Marília Higuchi Santos, Flavio André Silva, Paulo José Ferreira Tucci   +7 more
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Prospects for Animal Models of Mental Representation [PDF]

, 1989
A major goal of physiological psychology is to determine the physical basis of mental representation. Animal models are essential to this project. Dretske's influential analysis of the concept of mental representation suggests that operant and classical ...
Stich, Stephen, Lockery, Shawn
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Functionally referential signals: a promising paradigm whose time has passed [PDF]

, 2012
Finding the evolutionary origins of human language in the communication systems of our closest living relatives has, for the last several decades, been a major goal of many in the field of animal communication generally and primate communication ...
Fischer, Julia, Wheeler, Brandon C., Brandon C. Wheeler, Julia Fischer, Wheeler, Brandon C   +4 more
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Comportamento mecânico do terço proximal de fêmures de ratos após período de suspensão pela cauda e exercitação Mechanical behavior of rats' femoral proximal thirds after a period of tail suspension and exercises

Acta Ortopédica Brasileira, 2007
A remodelação óssea pode ser estimulada por forças mecânicas presentes nas atividades físicas normais. Neste trabalho foi analisado o comportamento mecânico do terço proximal de fêmur de ratas submetidas à suspensão pela cauda e posterior treinamento em ...
Marcos Massao Shimano, José Batista Volpon   +1 more
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Myokine Musclin Is Critical for Exercise-Induced Cardiac Conditioning

, 2023
This study investigates the role and mechanisms by which the myokine musclin promotes exercise-induced cardiac conditioning. Exercise is one of the most powerful triggers of cardiac conditioning with proven benefits for healthy and diseased hearts. There
Denice M. Hodgson-Zingman, Zhiyong Zhu, Vitor A. Lira, Matthew P. Harris, Leonid V. Zingman, Liping Yu, Shemin Zeng   +6 more
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Towards Large Particle Size in Compound Feed: Using Expander Conditioning Prior to Pelleting Improves Pellet Quality and Growth Performance of Broilers

Animals, 2022
During the processing of compound feed for broilers, several changes occur that affect the physical and probably the nutritional properties of pellets, influencing animal performance. The effects of mill type, particle size (PS) and expander conditioning
Marco Antônio Ebbing, Nadia Yacoubi, Victor Naranjo, Werner Sitzmann, Karl Schedle, Martin Gierus   +5 more
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